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dinner
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form (.rtf)
Location and travel:
Travelling
to Cardiff
Travelling to Cardiff University
Cardiff University
Cardiff University website
Centre for Language and Communication
Research
Forensic Linguistics at Cardiff University:
MA/Diploma/Certificate
in Forensic Linguistics
PhD
in Forensic Linguistics
Abstracts/Programme
Abstracts
Thematic
Symposia
Programme
Contact:
Dr Janet Cotterill
Centre for Language
and Communication
Cardiff University
PO Box 94 Cardiff
CF10 3XB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)2920 876393
Fax: +44 (0)2920 874242
Email: mailto:cotterillj@cardiff.ac.uk |
International Association
of Forensic Linguists
7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and
Law
1st
~ 4th July 2005
Cardiff University, UK |
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Registration for the
conference has now begun.
Please see the 'Registration' link (left) for details
*Keynote Speakers*
| Professor John Gibbons (speaker
bio)
Hong Kong Baptist University /
University of Sydney
President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
Pressure
Points: How witnesses come to agree with what they
do not believe
(abstract) |
| Detective Inspector Kerry Marlow
(speaker bio)
Detective Inspector, South Wales
Police, UK. Force Interview Adviser, ACPO* Regional Interview
Co-ordinator for Wales, ACPO Investigative Interview Strategy
Lead
(*Association of Chief Police Officers)
The Development
of Investigative Interviewing: A new phenomenon in British policing
(abstract) |
| Malcolm
Coulthard Postgraduate Scholarship
The
first Malcolm Coulthard Postgraduate Scholarship has been awarded
to Mr Clive Forrester from the University of the West Indies,
Mona. |
* Special
Thematic Symposia *
The
conference will include three special symposia, on the following topics:
Studies in Forensic
Linguistics for Pre-Law Students
(Coordinator: William G. Eggington)
Plain Language and
Transparent Legal System for Lay People
(Coordinator: Mami Hiraike Okawara)
Language analysis
in Asylum Cases: Defining a New Branch of Forensic Linguistics
(Coordinator: Maaike Verrips)
Outlines
and abstracts are available by clicking the 'Thematic Symposia' link
(left)
Individual
papers will deal with all aspects of forensic linguistics/language and
law, including:
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courtroom
discourse
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police
interviews
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courtroom
interpreting and translating
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the
readability/comprehensibility of legal documents
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the
analysis/interpretation of legal texts
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the
comprehensibility of the police caution issued to suspects
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interviews
with children in the legal system
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the
communicative challenges of ‘vulnerable’ witnesses
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the
use of linguistic evidence in court
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authorship/speaker
identification
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the
teaching/testing of forensic linguistics/language and law
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Abstracts are available by clicking the
link (left) |
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